SAH/WOH - Why?

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Registered: 11-18-2005
SAH/WOH - Why?
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Mon, 02-20-2006 - 7:41am

I am sure this has been done before but I was wondering this in light of recent posts lately.

Why did you decide to sah/woh?

Was it a choice or something expected of you?

Was your plan to sah/woh though out or impulsive? Long-term or short-term?

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 02-27-2006 - 1:46pm
The funny part was that someone tried to help him out by saying, Mr. President, I think you misheard us, we were talking about Sweden, not Switzerland. But Bush kept insisting there was no Swedish army.
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Registered: 01-18-2006
Mon, 02-27-2006 - 1:46pm
LMAO By physical force? Ummm no. If I look at my son and say..."Get your coat on now, we need to get out the door." He knows that he needs to get his coat on or he will be punished. Usually taking away his afternoon activity time is enough to correct the behavior. No way I am sending my son to school without a coat. Not gonna happen. I won't have to force him. If the teacher takes the children outside and they have coats. She tells the kids...Everyone get your coats on. He will put it on. So your *guess* is wrong.

 

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Registered: 09-08-2003
Mon, 02-27-2006 - 1:49pm
I agree that it is ridiculous and it is a rule I follow extremely loosely...I really don't feel my kids are in danger in a locked car, buckled into their seatbelts, while I run ito the school to drop something off or into the mini mart to grab a water.
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Registered: 01-18-2006
Mon, 02-27-2006 - 1:49pm
I totally agree! Not only that but I have my way of disciplining my children. I don't expect anyone to hold what we do as law. Someone may spank every single issue. We don't. If my child needs a spanking while at a friends house, he needs to come home. Thank goodness he doesn't have that problem and he doesn't have any friends like that either.

 

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Registered: 11-03-2005
Mon, 02-27-2006 - 1:50pm
While I haven't allowed my kid (yet) to hae a day off from school, I have to go with PKA on this one. Adults are allowed to have bad days. Days they just don't want to go to work. Days they feel "sick" but aren't really sick. I haven't done it often, but I've called in sick when I was fatigued or had a cold or wasn't really *sick*. Many a time I've gone in to work late to get an extra hour or two of sleep. Or left early so I could have some peace before the kids got home. Shouldn't kids be afforded the same considerations? Why is an adult allowed to have a bad day and not a kid?
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 02-27-2006 - 1:50pm
Natural/logical consequence of running off in the parking lot would be to get back in the car and go straight home and not be allowed to go on the next trip. You can't really think that people would let their child be hit? That is why *logical* is part of it.
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Registered: 07-16-2005
Mon, 02-27-2006 - 1:50pm
I've seen those slot on the infant seat and didn't know they could be clipped onto the cart as well. Of course, I should be more concerned with the crud and grime my 2.5 yr-old touches in the shopping carts which have the "car" in front of them. I try not to look and just hope for the best.
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Registered: 01-18-2006
Mon, 02-27-2006 - 1:52pm
WWYD if your child walked up to you and hit you?

 

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Registered: 05-01-2003
Mon, 02-27-2006 - 1:54pm
simple solution - lock the car. There is no way that someone could take off w/someone's car so fast if either the keys werenot in the ignition or the owner of the car wasn't making it easy in some way to have the car be stolen. That sounds pretty ignorant, IMO.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 02-27-2006 - 1:54pm
Since when was parenting convenient?

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